Brig. General U.S. Volunteers April 25 1862. Honorably mustered out January 15 1866.

Brevetted Major General U.S. Volunteers January 12 1865 "For fitness to command and promptness to execute."

Born December 30 1819 at Mt. Pleasant Pa. Died February 8 1873 at Harrisburg Pa.

Erected 1914 by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Location. 39° 49.033′ N, 77° 13.196′ W. Marker is near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in Adams County. Marker is at the intersection of Slocum Avenue and Williams Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Slocum Avenue. Click for map. Located in the saddle between the upper and lower crests of Culp's Hill, in Gettysburg National Military Park. Marker is in this post office area: Gettysburg PA 17325, United States of America.

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Also see . . . General John W. Geary. Although not a West Point graduate, Geary was well respected for his service in the Mexican-American War. When he formed the 48th Pennsylvania, fifteen companies and a battery worth of troops responded. (Submitted on November 25, 2008, by Craig Swain of Leesburg, Virginia.)

The monument for General Geary stands at the intersection, while the tablet was placed a few paces north on Slocum Avenue (to the right).

6. General John W. Geary

Among the other distinctions, Geary was the first may or San Francisco. Before the war he served a stint as the territorial Governor of Kansas. After the war he served two terms as the Governor of Pennsylvania.

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